last week was the festive and birthday season! i've been having good food for 6 days straight, meeting with different friends and tried many new places. its burned a big hole in my wallet and left me lots of fats to burn.

last thursday, i met mz and sw for dinner at bugis MOF. i liked it alot. it serves japanese food and quite reasonably priced. i tried their soba and it was delicious! their bento looks good too and is cheaper than the soba. though it looked a little small. their desserts menu looked very tempting and we ordered strawberry and black sesame ice cream. they came with a waffle biscuit that i thought was very nice. the dumplings were a little hard and tasteless though.

fri, met hui, ling and yun for dinner at sketches. i think its the worst place i ate for the past week. the pasta was reasonably priced but the jumbo platter was definitely disappointing with the not so jumbo serving but jumbo pricetag. i ordered linguini with fried chicken and sweet and spicy thai sauce. i thought the sauce was on the chicken but it was in the pasta instead. i didnt like sweet pasta and the chicken was too dry.


sat ate at waraku with my family. good japanese food that's worth the price! the tempura ice cream is very nice! worth a try...

sun was my actual birthday and i celebrated with ny. went vivocity where we tried earl's swensons. the main course we ordered included a salad bar buffet. it was good but we had to rush and ended up being late for our movie.

mon played badminton with sw and hb. our last game of the year and probably till hb comes back again in may. havent played for so long and my legs were so tired after that. we were supposed to meet hui for dinner at "raffles city bakerz'in" but after walking around the basement and first floor, me and ny couldnt find it. we checked the directory and it wasnt on the list. there was no bakerz'in at raffles city! we ended up eating at ding tai fung whuch i didnt mind cos i missed the xiao long bao. hee...we went bakerz'in for desserts but the whole process was very rushed. we were the last customers and had to leave within half hour. i tried the chocolate warm cake. it was very nice with warm chocolate flowing inside and vanilla ice cream on top. i preferred hui's waffles with cheese ice cream and strawberry sauce. very nice! i think the desserts are overpriced though. its even more expensive than our dinner. i still miss chocz chocolate cake.

tue went to have toast box breakfast with sw and mz. call us crazy but its still nice. hee...went to watch alvin and the chipmunks. we bought the tickets the night before from a different cinema and there's only the front 3 rows left. why so many people watching an old show?? didnt know that can buy tickets in advance and from different cinema too. me and ny went seperate ways from sw and hb after that. last minute decided to eat at marche and so coincidental that sw was outside marche too! haha...the rosti is so nice. think i havent ate at marche for a long time. but this pre-dinner 'snack' at 5pm was too filling. haha...

thanks to my friends for the company and presents!

got the results for my final exam today. my results improved but still abit disappointed cos i think everybody did much better. but well, at least it improved. no more chance to improve again le. should have studied harder before...
i'll be starting fyp next week! have been slacking and enjoying my holidays that i dont feel like starting. hope i'll be able to get results.

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my internet connection was unstable for the past few days so couldnt blog about christmas. i went to my first ever christmas party on xmas eve organized by my coursemates. its goin to be our last gathering for a long time and it was super fun! our guest list kept growing. luckily it was a potluck. we ordered pizza, turkey, log cake and people brought cookies, brownies, mifen, curry chicken, sushi... most people were dressed to the nines. suyin's dad organized a game called connectivity where we were split into 3 teams to form a circle and keep the balloon in the air. it reminded me of entrepreneurship where they kept emphasizing on team spirit. haha...but most of us knew each other already so it wasnt much of a problem.
the most exciting part was the gift exchange and countdown. we all had to poke balloons filled with confetti to see what present we got. then at midnight, we got ready our party poppers to countdown and enjoyed the chocolate fondue prepared by weizhi after that. yum!
thanks for the birthday surprise too!

my business plan is finally done! last week was the entrepreneurship 'boot camp' as said by our lecturer. last week was a super long week with 4 presentations in 5 days. we had a crash course on industry analysis, marketing, finance and accounting etc... the lecturer basically left us on our own to do the marketing plan when we didnt know what were all those business terms. many groups had to stay back till late in school to finish up their presentations. its very amusing when we're in the resource room and you can hear all the business terms and financial numbers instead of the normal bio terms. luckily my group is very efficient. we didnt have to stay very late. and i think we work best under time pressure! our presentation grades were quite good. grey team rocks!
overall, this module although tiring and boliao at times, is a nice change from the bio modules that we normally take. the tight timelines really require us to have teamwork. in the process, i got to know new people as well. its a nice ending to the times of our lectures in sbs. *sniff*

we had our entrepreneurship orientation on saturday. first, we were divided into 7 coloured groups. i got into the same group with suyin again! we have too much affinity with each other. this orientation reminds me of foc (freshman orientation camp) games, just that there were lesser introductory ice-breakers as most of us should have known or seen each other before. we played mostly team building games, most of which were quite lame. i enjoyed the 'pass the marble' game at the end. but i only managed to play 2 rounds as my 'company' was 'closed down' due to 'lack of clients'. unfortunately i was manager of the team and i couldnt play the next 2 rounds as i was 'promoted to regional manager' and just had to observe other people or give them instructions. its was a fun game that required team work, speed and strategy. some groups were really amazing.

after a tiring day, we went to suyin's house for her birthday party cum bbq. it was really fun and we're planning another gathering for christmas eve! went to sleep over at hong's house for the night. first time i stayed over at a friend's house. nice having girl's talk till late at night. and i woke up to breakfast prepared by her!

today was the first day of entrepreneurship lessons. its such a long and intensive day! lessons are scheduled from 9am to 5pm this week, just like office hours. just that we'll probably have to do OT most of the days to prepare for the many presentations that we'll be having. we were only given 1 hour today to read a case study and prepare for presentation. now have to think of 2 business ideas incoporating technology by wednesday. help!

realised i didnt blog about post exam outings. after exam that wednesday, i met up with jh,wz, jv, vinc and daniel to go to the airport T3. Lz joined us there too. If there's one word for it, it would be HUGE! the halls are so spacious. we went for the self guided tour which allowed us to enter the transit hall. but we kinda tagged along some of the guided tours. there are going to be alot of shops in the transit hall but none were open that day. so actually there wasnt much to see. there's an indoor garden with a large pond that looks like a mini swimming pool. the amazing thing is that there are real trees inside the garden! i thought they were fake at first. the pond didnt have any koi at the moment, which was said by two guides. then a third guide came and said there were 6 small koi inside, orange and white colour. so everybody in the group was peering into the pond trying to find them. then the guide asked 'cannot find? maybe they are hiding around somewhere.' after more looking, she said 'actually i was just kidding. there's nothing in the pond.' grrr... there's going to be a butterfly garden too, with facilities like a powder room, shower and small theatre etc. but they made a common boarding longue for about 4 to 5 gates, with seating capacity of 1000. seems pretty small to me.

after that we looked around for a coffee place to rest and went down to b2. its so far walking down from one end to another! and we ended up going to mc cafe. everyone seems exhausted by then. so coincidental that all of us only slept 4 hrs the previous night although only 3 of us had exams. and those without exams seem to be even more tired than us. me and jh even went to novena to buy donuts after that. the queue there is quite fast actually. we got our donuts within half an hour.

yesterday was a super boring day, staying in hall with nothing to do. seems so weird suddenly dont have to study anything. this sem really passed by in a flash.
watched enchanted today and its really funny. the chipmunk is so cute! though eternal love may be just a fantasy but i think that is still what we all wish for. sometimes we have to remind ourselves what made us fall in love with the guy or girl we like in the first place. after being together for a certain time, its easy to forget why we even want to be together. believe in the true love's kiss! haha

i'm looking forward to tomorrow's bbq!

whoo~ i had my last exam paper yesterday. the very last paper i'm taking for the rest of my life. as i put my pen down, i thought 'this is it. its all over now.' but i think i'm actually going to miss studying. i like exam periods actually, except for the exams itself. cos i always study outside with different people, i can actually get to see some friends more often during the exam period than any other time. and sometimes i'll get to know new people, like elton and daniel this sem. daniel was my coursemate but i only talked to him for the first time in the last week in sbs. and we got to sample cakes made by edward and yi liang, our technician! yi liang's tiramisu was good, it puts us girls to shame. its quite sad that our sbs school life has ended. i really enjoyed my time here and made many good friends. next sem, everybody will be doing their fyp in different places and i'll be going nus. its quite scary having to do everything on my own. for now, entrepreneurship is going to start on sat. its going to be an orientation. reminds me of foc with those ice-breaker games. hope it'll be fun and i can get a good group.

had my last lecture in sbs yesterday. exams are starting in less than 2 weeks! argh... sharon organized a lunch gathering on monday, cos we're all going our seperate ways for fyp next semester. with 17 girls and 1 lucky guy, we ordered canadian pizza and sakae sushi and had a fun time. oh yeah, these 2 food outlets are going to open in ntu next year with a few other stalls but we wont be able to enjoy them. lucky juniors... meanwhile, i'm stuck to can a food. *sigh*

moved into hall on sunday night and guess what, i got a room in hall 1 yesterday! if only they had given it to me even 1 week earlier. haiz... now what do i do with it. it seems a waste to reject it. hall 1 is a better location. but the single room now is also quite good cos its new, just that its abit far. feeling so bored now though i have alot of school work to do. the virology lecturer just dropped another bomb saying that we have to do another presentation. as if we havent done enough for that module. i feel bored cos i'm not used to loneliness. i dont like eating alone, staying in the room the whole night. but my close friends are no longer staying in hall. at least i have my internet back on now...

after last week's mistake, i finally met up with mei and kr. kr treated us to dinner at ichiban sushi. it was my first time there and i liked it. there are more varieties compared to sakae. ate the black pepper beef with rice. its so nice! it was served on a hot plate, above a flame. the beef was very tender and black pepper taste not too overpowering. i liked the butter taste in the gravey too. yum~ we had dessert later at ice monster too. tried the new durian and mango ice. the durian was good but the portions quite little. been eating alot these few days. oh no...

recently discovered facebook. (i know i'm slow). sw added me long time ago but didnt bother to join until friends kept asking me if i was in facebook. so amazed at the number of applications! sw's profile has so many things that it was overwhelming for a first-timer (me). but it seems alot more fun than friendster. so join facebook if u havent!

yeah now is the mid term break. lucky not to have any assignments or tests but still have to study. havent been keeping up with my work this sem. all my friends who have graduated have found jobs. hope i'll be able to find a job i like next year too.
i was at my ultimate blurness on sunday! mei messaged me asking if i wanted to join her and kr for dinner at vivo, 6.15pm. she didnt state the day and i dont know why i just assumed we were meeting on that day without asking. and so i went happily at 6.15. after waiting for 10 minutes, i started to get a feeling of dreadfulness...i couldnt reach mei and when i called kr, he was at home! i was hoping he was kidding with me. argh!! in the end i had to eat packet food alone at home. sigh...

its only week 3 and there are already so many deadlines to meet. year 4 is indeed no fun. but this is my last semester in school studying with my friends so must treasure it more. its actually nice to be back in school again. i still havent got hall yet but hopefully we can all get hall soon so can actually have some time together before everyone goes out for fyp next semester. till then, i still have to travel. but it isnt so bad as i dont have 8.30 lessons plus i have company. hee... school and especially the canteens are always overcrowded due to the ever-increasing student population. can never find seats even at 11.30am.

went to see fireworks on saturday and i saw alot of familiar people at the marina area. it was very crowded but we managed to get a space to stand, relatively near the floating platform. that night's fireworks were from china. they were not exceptionally spectacular but it was still very nice to see the big fireworks exploding in the sky. its quite a different feeling from seeing them on television. wonder how many millions of dollars burst up in the sky with the 15 mins of fireworks. haha...

today was my last day in the lab. time pass so quickly, the 3 months holiday have passed in a flash and school is starting next week. learnt alot in the lab and i'll probably go back for fyp. too bad i couldnt get gd results though. we bought muffins for the lab people. finally get to eat them myself too! wanted to heat up one for angela and thought that we'll make it warmer as she was freezing after coming out of the cold room. microwaved it for 2 minutes which proved to be too long. we were happily chatting when i noticed smoke coming out of the microwave! the whole pantry was filled with smoke and burnt smell. the smell was so strong that it permeated the whole lab after we opened the door. one muffin wasted... the banana walnut smells great though. must try that next time.
finally went to the zoo on sunday. it was enjoyable but too bad it rained in the morning. the weather is so wet these few days. looking forward to the cooking session tomorrow!
was watching the show just now where a famous chef cooks for someone important to him. he cooked many delicacies like abalone, crab and bird's nest for his wife. then the wife said 'it doesnt matter if its shark's fin or if its just porridge. the food is nice so long as it is shared with you.' so sweet~

i'm sick again...sickening sore throat and cough. just when i've got so many things to do and places to go this week. wonder if i should/can still go for the amazing race tomorrow. i'd be disappointed if i didnt.
watched harry potter on wednesday. the show already started even though we went in on time. this episode was more dark and serious with alot of talking. liked the goblet of fire better. played the basketball machine at the arcade before that. long time never play basketball and it was fun. but its so tiring to keep throwing the ball even for a few minutes. my right arm and legs were aching after playing a few games. legs were aching cos i tip-toed all the time. haha...

must get well soon!

i dunno what happened but my blogger page just turned chinese. so weird... anyway, i have nothing to do in lab again. seniors dont want me to help them. afraid i might create more trouble than help?
last saturday being 07/07/07, a total of 777 couples got married. next year 08/08/08 will be even more popular with the chinese. went to iz's bro's wedding yesterday, even though we didnt know the brother. haha... it was a first time experience for some of us to attend a malay wedding. the wedding was held at the void deck of their flat. we arrived late and missed the show though. the couple were taking photos when we came. instead of going around tables to take photos like in chinese weddings, the couple could sit in chairs on a platform with chandeliers hanging above. the set up was very pretty. the wedding cake was even more...unique. its a 3-tiered glutinous rice 'cake' decorated with cucumbers and prawns etc. we were seated at one of the long tables and food was served to us, including a souvenir each. the food was quite good but too bad we missed the ceremony.

wed was an enjoyable day. cos i took half day off again. haha... went for ktv session with some secondary school friends. it was my first time singing with zk and jy. they really sing until very 'fang'. went to a vegetarian cafe, roma deli, for dinner. prices were reasonable but the food was just ok. the soup and some of the pasta had a strong herbal taste which i didnt quite like.
dropped by mz's commencement on thursday. everyone was busy taking photos in their graduation gown and certificate. the area around the building was nicely decorated with pots of flowers everywhere. some of them received flowers or small presents from their friends. so cute haha... next year, it'll be my turn. dunno what i'm going to do after graduation...

went to sharon's house to have steamboat lunch with the sbs girls today. i realised steamboat gatherings are very common with sbs people. the most memorable one was the one we had in hall. that was fun... sharon prepared most of the food for us today. we only helped out with the easy stuff. it was such a filling lunch! almost all of us are working in labs now so everyone updated and complained about their labs. lab environment is very important to be able to learn something and be happy working. i'm getting used to my lab now that i have done the experiments before. the seniors complain of the lack of space but are generally willing to teach. so we just ignore their comments. haha...didnt learn much outside of what we are doing so i'm feeling very bored. sometimes have nothing to do in the lab but yet cant leave too early. only the pay is my greatest motivation to go lab when i know i have nothing to do. i want my hols! many friends dont wanna continue working in the lab after graduation. the seniors in the lab also say that we must be very passionate cos the pay isnt great and the working hours can be long. but...what else can i do?

last sunday, i went cathay with ny. finally spent my charles & keith and ben & jerry vouchers. i was served by weisheng from impresario group 1 at b&j's! we found each other familiar but i couldnt remember who he was at first. so qiao... next we went to IKEA tampines. there's so many people there!!! especially the cafe, so difficult to find seats. super pissed when a woman snatch my seat. got a headache when i finally found seats. but the meatballs were very nice! think its a mix of beef and pork. they were served with a creamy sauce and a sweet jam sauce on the side. ny bought a bedroom light for willie and we went to explore the Courts megastore and Giant next. there was nothing much actually,especially Giant. and its weird that there's a 7-11 below Giant. haha...
yesterday was our 6 mth anniversary. this half year seems to pass by quickly. didnt celebrate as ny was sick. seems like everyone was watching transformers as it was sold out for many shows. in the end we went to causeway point for fish soup. think the fish soup there is the best!
so craving for Chocolate N' Spice muffins after vinc said he went to buy them last week. first tried them when les's friend bought them for us while studying for exams. love the chocolate and cheese muffins hot out of the oven... yum!

tomorrow's sunday but i have nothing to do...feel like i'm wasting an off day when i stay at home. tomorrow is also the start of the gst hike. everybody's been shopping and going places during june before the hike. i havent done much shopping though. my new shoes hurt like mad! i love the white shoes but clumsy as i am they got dirty the first day i wore them.
sianz...need some excitement in my life.

nothing to do at the lab this week. i took off on tuesday. so happy! made my offday to full use. met ny for lunch then met up with mz to shop at bugis. havent shop in awhile so it was a fruitful trip. had my favourite ice cream at ben and jerry's. sinful...haha. hope i can finish all the vouchers before they expire.
spent dinner with some sbs friends to celebrate vinc's birthday. we went this malay cafe opposite shaw tower. the food was quite nice. the chicken was really soft and tender. and there were crispy oatmeal like flakes on top. yum!

today was my third day at work at the lab. its been a super tiring week and i've been on a sleep debt since friday. have been meeting friends and playing mahjong which was fun. but getting up at 6+ is not. the journey is long, there's no space or proper mentor. dont know if it would be a good environment for fyp.

its the last free day before i start my internship and i'm staying at home with no where to go. sigh...should have worked one more day. probably wont see any of the people i got to know at work again. but thats the case with each job.
i had fun the last few offdays going swimming, cycling and the day at mind's cafe.

long journeys and long days ahead...